Holistic Pediatrician, The
Chapter OneThe Therapeutic Mountain
"I've taken my child to so many doctors, I've lost count," Helen began. "The pediatrician put him on antibiotics to prevent any more ear infections, but the medicines gave him diarrhea and a yeast infection. The chiropractor said that adjusting his neck would help, but I didn't think it helped much and I didn't like all the X rays. The naturopath recommended some herbs and vitamins, but my insurance wouldn't pay for them. None of these doctors thought the other ones did any good; they all seemed more interested promoting their own particular therapy than in working with each other to help my child. I'm frustrated and confused. How can the best, the safest, and most effective of all available treatments be combined for my child?"
Helen's story epitomizes many families' complaints about the health care system. In the 1990s, my colleague at Harvard, Dr. David Eisenberg, published two landmark scientific surveys in the New England Journal of Medicine and the Journal of the American Medical Association; his research showed that the p ... read full excerpt from Holistic Pediatrician, The ebook